Have you ever wondered where the United States constitution is stored? Maybe you saw a movie with Kevin Costner where he tries to be like Indiana Jones so he steals it from a highly fortified vault. Well while it is stored in a vault in the National Archives and Records Administration, it is not quite the way it was in that movie.

Of course this isn’t your average every day document. So document storage experts have gotten involved along the way to make sure this precious piece of paper will last forever. Even though a document imaging service or two have certainly stored it for all of posterity with pictures, it is important that we take care of the original.

But what if something did happen to the original constitution? What if the building burned down or something? Here is something that most Americans don’t know. The one we have stored in the vault in Washington DC in the National Archives and Records Administration isn’t the only copy! There are 20 known copies that date back to the original constitutional convention. These copies are for the most part held in collections owned by universities, state governments and even some in the hands of private collections.

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